ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -It is a universal truth. Daffodils wither away by the evening and we die when the old age comes. Both of them have to go like daffodils all have the same ending. It is eternal.

Detailed explanation-2: -In “To Daffodils, ” Herrick writes about the fleeting quality of life and about how life inevitably withers away. Yet, in the throes of this sense of change and fading, there can be peace and acceptance. There can be solace in the notion that time is humans’ only constant, and that a new dawn will inevitably come.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herrick primarily uses symbolism in his poem to illustrate the passing of time and the ephemerality of life; the sun is one such example. When it is described as “early-rising” (Line 3), readers imagine the bright, orange-yellow orb rising through the sky in its growing light and power.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rhyme scheme of both stanzas is abcbddceae. The peculiar couplet in the middle of the first stanza registers the tiny moment of synchronic re-pose where human and natural time might be aligned-perhaps signified by the sun at noon.